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Hey folks...This is a great website for autograph news. They've also been exposing the falacies of the third party authenticators claiming to be the "industry leading experts" such as JSA, GAI, PSA/DNA and others...
http://www.autographalert.com/news.html
Very good info!!
Here is one of their recent news items...
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The Yankees end at Tampa Bay and Boston, who have the two best home winning percentages in MLB other than the Yankees. What's the hardest last week of a season the Yankees have ever had? I'm talking about the difficulty of the opponents without considering how good the Yankees were than year or how they did in that week.

Hitters need 502.2 plate appearances to qualify (I've seen 502 be listed as okay even though 502 is less than 502.2). 3.1 plate appearances per team game in 154 games would have been 477.4. Steve Pearce's career-high is 383. He has 89 home runs, 283 RBI, 278 runs, and 543 hits. Does anybody know of a player with more than that in any of those categories without having enough plate appearances in any year?

After the Yankees last home game against Boston, the Yankees will have 10 games left and Boston will have 9 games left. In order to clinch the division at Yankee Stadium, Boston would need to lead by at least 10.5. Boston has 13 of their next 23 games at home, and 8 of the 13 are against teams below .500.
Does anybody know if a team has ever clinched the Yankees division (or the AL before divisions) while at Yankee Stadium? It counts if a team lost at Yankee Stadium and clinched because...

At http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/24210202/mlb-roundtable-looking-ahead-hall-fame-class-2019 two out of three people said Todd Helton won't make the Hall of Fame and one person said he could gradually rise. Helton is the only player to have all of these things:
Played after 1963
2,500 hits
1,400 RBI
1,400 runs
.950 OPS
Not accused of PEDs
Among the recent players with a worse career OPS than Helton are A-Rod, Pujols, Miguel Cabrera, Chipper Jones, and Griffey Jr. I'm not...

The Philadelphia Athletics' Bill McCahan pitched a complete game loss (although the bottom of the ninth wasn't necessary) when Cleveland's Don Black pitched a no-hitter on July 10, 1947 in Game 1 of a doubleheader. On September 3, 1947, McCahan pitched a no-hitter against Washington. Does anybody know of another pitcher who pitched a no-hitter and started a game his team got no-hit in one year?

Question: My mother says that when she attended a game at YS in the early 70s (she thinks 1971 or 1972), there was some sort of bank of phones where if you picked them up, you'd hear a recording of a Yankee legend talking, or someone else telling a story about a Yankee legend. My father says he doesn't remember it if it was there, so my mother is wondering:
A. If it indeed existed or whether she's misremembering something.
B. If it did exist, where in the Stadium it was, and any other...

https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/HOU/HOU198609250.shtml for a game Mike Scott pitched a no-hitter in. In the top of the first, San Francisco's Dan Gladden led off, was hit by a pitch, and stole second before the second plate appearance was finished. In the bottom of the first, Houston's Billy Hatcher did the same thing. Can anybody find another game where both leadoff hitters were hit by a pitch and stole second before the second plate appearance was finished?

Mike Mussina won a career-high 20 games in his last year. A.J. Burnett was an All-Star for the first time in his last year, and his 7 losses that year were his career-low in years in which he pitched at least 162 innings.

On September 20, 1969, Pittsburgh's Bob Moose no hit the Mets and won 4-0. Pittsburgh had 1 RBI and 3 runs on wild pitches. https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/NYN/NYN196909200.shtml is about that game.

David Ortiz finished second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth in MVP voting. Does anybody know of another player who had at least five consecutive number finishes? Alex Rodriguez, Ryan Howard, and Ryan Braun finished first, second, and third. Does anybody know of another player who had at least three consecutive number finishes including winning? The numbers have to be consecutive, but the years do not.

Cincinnati rookie Tyler Mahle is no hitting Atlanta through 6 innings. Mahle is batting eighth. Does anyone know of a no hitter who did any of these three things?
1. Pitched by a rookie
2. Pitched by a pitcher batting before ninth (a pitcher who didn't bat doesn't count)
3. Pitched by a pitcher on the team with the worst record in MLB at the time

Mantle's Topps rookie card just sold for $2.88 million, the second highest price ever for a baseball card (after the 1909 Honus Wagner). The prior high price for this card was $1.13 million in 2016, though that involved a card with a slightly lower grade (8.5) than this one (9).
http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/23254147/1952-mickey-mantle-baseball-card-topps-sells-record-288m

I've played for New York, Detroit and Minnesota teams. I also spent a lot of time playing in Newark and even Tennessee, and also out of this country.
I was born in Virginia a long time ago. I turned twenty in my first season of pro ball. I batted and threw right-handed.
Some have called me diminutive. I was kind of bow-legged but that didn't matter ... cause many people think I was one of the best defensive third basemen in the history baseball - in any league. I was kind of flashy out...